Art History: Mona Lisa del Giocondo

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"

Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa about 1503, and it was in his studio when he died in 1519.